Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 0
On the banks of the muddy Amazon live two friends: Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, who eats snails, and Slow-Solid Tortoise, who eats lettuces.
Who acts: Stickly Prickly Hedgehog, Solid Tortoise · What happens: live, eat · To what, where: two friends, banks, snails, lettuces
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stickly Prickly Hedgehog, Solid Tortoise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 banks | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 banks | det |
| 3 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 live | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Amazon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Amazon | det |
| 6 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Amazon | amod |
| 7 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 banks | nmod |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 friends | nummod |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 live | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hedgehog | punct |
| 12 | Stickly | stickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Hedgehog | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stickly | punct |
| 14 | Prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Hedgehog | amod |
| 15 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 friends | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eats | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 eats | nsubj |
| 18 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Hedgehog | acl:relcl |
| 19 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eats | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tortoise | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Tortoise | cc |
| 22 | Slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Solid | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Slow | punct |
| 24 | Solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Tortoise | amod |
| 25 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Hedgehog | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eats | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 eats | nsubj |
| 28 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Tortoise | acl:relcl |
| 29 | lettuces | lettuce | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 eats | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | two friends | the banks of the muddy Amazon | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme friend=Location | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | Stickly Prickly Hedgehog and Solid Tortoise | snails | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | Solid Tortoise | lettuces | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.lesson:0.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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